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Yvette Carnell, speaking after the March 15 Super Tuesday voting. At 2:15: "This was our opportunity to go somewhere [other than to conservative Democrats] and to prove that you're going to [have to] treat us right ... this was our moment. So I'm not sure we're going to have another moment like this ...

It will now take one of these — large, dark and next to impossible to find — to keep our species from a rendezvous with Exxon's mandated future. Welcome to the post-Sanders-endorsement-of-Clinton world. by Gaius PubliusIn keeping with the theme of the week — Sanders' pivot to endorsing Clinton, the Democratic Party's "pivot" to supporting TPP — I'm going to pivot from the scripted faux-drama of the prologue to the next four years ... to climate.

Al Franken, a reliable Monsanto Senator (source)by Gaius PubliusLet's look at this story from a couple of angles. First, here's what happened recently in Vermont, as told by Thom Hartmann (my emphasis everywhere):

Graphic showing global warming from 1850–2016. Notice the rapid outward spiral near the end (source).by Gaius PubliusA climate note, to add some perspective to the "very encouraging" or "just in the margins" changes to the Democratic platform, as you prefer to see them.

State Dept. Inspector General Steve Linickby Gaius PubliusThe State Dept. has announced that it's reopening the suspended Clinton email-and-server investigation, now that the FBI investigation is concluded.

James Comey, Hillary Clinton (source)by Gaius PubliusIt's going to be a while before the jury of informed comment returns a verdict regarding James Comey's pre-emptive declaration of "no prosecution" for Hillary Clinton. But let's see what a first look gets us.

"Playful lemmings jumping off a cliff at a beach party" (art print available here; click to enlarge)by Gaius PubliusIs it possible that Clinton-endorsing superdelegates and other Democrats could be hurt in the general election by that endorsement? Current polling seems to suggest as much.

Working class voters, from the accounting office to the construction site, of all races and genders, are forgotten once they leave the polling place. Land of the free, or of something else?

Noam Chomsky's latest book (more info here) by Gaius PubliusScheduling note: I'll be on travel for much of the next two weeks, so no posting until early July.We've written in these pages about the history of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War (examples here and

Writer and radio host Benjamin Dixonby Gaius PubliusThe news is that the negotiation ahead of the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia around the rules by which the Party will conduct future primaries has hit another bump, this time over the number and role of superdelegates. Sanders would like far fewer, either zero or a number not sufficient to predetermine the outcome of an election.